The RTVE State Broadcaster Advisory Council in Cataluña has said that TVE Spanish Television manipulated the facts in their coverage of the Supercopa second leg between Barcelona and Real Madrid last Wednesday.
Canal24 is accused of manipulating the images of the incident between José Mourinho and Tito Vilanova so that it appeared Vilanova attacked Mourinho, when in fact just seconds earlier Mourinho has started the aggression by poking Vilanova, the Barcelona deputy coach, in the eye. That was not shown in the report.
The Advisory Council note that this is not the first case of ‘severe partiality’ in reporting, considering it ‘clearly intentional manipulation of the information’. The Council has written to the acting Chairman of RTVE, Manuel Esteve, in which they ask for responsibilities to be met for what has happened and ask that the person responsible accept his or her responsibility. They also want a public apology for the error committed ‘which can have no explanation of excuse’.
There was another case of bias in May 2009 when once again the coverage of what was a Champions League Semi Final was deemed to be clearly against F.C. Barcelona.
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